Depositional Environments, Facies Pattern and Marine Plants Distribution in Ras Muhammad Area, Sinai, Egypt
Abdel-Rahman, I., Hegazi, M. (2018). Depositional Environments, Facies Pattern and Marine Plants Distribution in Ras Muhammad Area, Sinai, Egypt. EKB Journal Management System, 1(2), 81-89.
Ibtehal Abdel-Rahman; Muhammad Hegazi. "Depositional Environments, Facies Pattern and Marine Plants Distribution in Ras Muhammad Area, Sinai, Egypt". EKB Journal Management System, 1, 2, 2018, 81-89.
Abdel-Rahman, I., Hegazi, M. (2018). 'Depositional Environments, Facies Pattern and Marine Plants Distribution in Ras Muhammad Area, Sinai, Egypt', EKB Journal Management System, 1(2), pp. 81-89.
Abdel-Rahman, I., Hegazi, M. Depositional Environments, Facies Pattern and Marine Plants Distribution in Ras Muhammad Area, Sinai, Egypt. EKB Journal Management System, 2018; 1(2): 81-89.

Depositional Environments, Facies Pattern and Marine Plants Distribution in Ras Muhammad Area, Sinai, Egypt

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Article 11, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Page 81-89  XML PDF (842.01 K)
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Authors
Ibtehal Abdel-Rahman email 1; Muhammad Hegazi2
1Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, 41522 Ismailia, Egypt
2Marine Science Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, 41522 Ismailia, Egypt
Abstract
Ras Muhammad Marine National Park is located on faulted and uplifted Neogene blocks that are
partially covered by Quaternary limestones of predominantly coralgal facies. The physiography of the
reefal limestone cropping out in the area and also the present-day depositional environments are
tectonically controlled. Surface morphology observations show that earthquake pools that cut through the
uplifted Pleistocene reefs indicate continuing recent movements, as indicated by numerous records of
seismic activity in the study area. The morphostructural-generated depositional facies patterns on the
peninsula are a wide tidal belt with tidal shoals and coastal spits, barrier and fringing reefs, three
elongated embayments, Hiddan Bay, mangrove and tidal channels, Ras Muhammad pool and sabkha, and
earthquake pools (two earth fissures). The distribution of marine plants is described for each area. The
abundance of algae in Ras Muhammad appeared to be inversely related to the abundance of living corals.
Keywords
Depositional environments; morphostructural setting; marine plants; Ras Muhammad; Sinai
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